Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 49

Domestic

By Maureen

thin muslin. Lay it on the eyelid and keep the eyes shut for half an hour. This cure is only good before the stye has come to a head; the poultice must be applied as soon as the first prickling pain in the eyelid announces the coming of the inflammation. For Chapped Hands. Take common starch, and grind it with a knife until it is reduced to the finest powder. After washing the hands, wipe them, and while they are still damp rub a little of the starch all over them. The effect is most soothing. Mustard ground to a very fine powder and mixed with a little water is an excellent thing for cleansing the hands after handling strongly odorous substances, such as onions and fish, etc. Household Hints. To keep water hot for a long time stand the kettle on an ordinary brick that has been heated in the oven or before a fire. When making jellies, brush round the inside of the mould with a little beaten up white of egg. The jelly will then turn, out easily. White marks made by hot plates can be removed from any wood with spirits of camphor applied with a,soft rag. Polish afterwards with a good furniture polish.

. Feather Cake. 1J cupsful sugar, 3 cupsful flour, Jib butter, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of soda mixed with flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, 1 cup warm milk. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs and milk, then stir in flour. When ready for oven add cream of tartar in a little milk, bake in a moderate oven. Banana Fritters. Jib flour, Joz butter, a pinch salt, 2 eggs; add milk. Beat yolks and whites separately put flour in a basin and melted butter moistened with warm milk; add yolks and then whites making it just stiff enough to drop from a spoon. Mix very gradually and smoothly. Maids of Honor. 8 teaspoonsful of sugar, 1 egg, 2oz ground almonds, a pinch baking powder. Beat the egg well up in a cup, add the sugar and beat until the sugar is dissolved, then add the almonds; stir all together; add the baking powder last. Line small cake tins with puff paste, put a little raspberry jam at the bottom, put in a teaspoonful of the mixture and bake 30 minutes. Fudge. 1 breakfastcupful brown sugar, 1 tin condensed milk, 2oz butter. Boil gently, stirring all the time, until it begins to stir just the least bit stiffly, then add a teaspoonful of vanilla. Pour the mixture into a flat tin or plate (greased) until it becomes thick. At this point bed in the fudge blanched almonds, walnuts, etc., and just before it is quite hard score it across into convenient squares with a knife. Almond Fingers. 2oz sugar, Jib butter, Jib flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg yolk. Beat the sugar and the butter to a cream. Mix the flour in gradually and 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Roll out as thin as possible; have ready an icing made of the white of an egg and sugar. Spread over the mixture then sprinkle with chopped almonds. Bake in a slow oven till a pale brown. To Cure a Stye. Put the smallest quantity of water possible over half a teaspoonful of black tea, and allow it to steep. In 10 minutes fold the wet tea-leaves into a tiny piece of